Josh Harntett, Kat Dennings and Sam Rockwell have signed on to star in an upcoming adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel END ZONE. The film will star Hartnett as a big-time Texas college football player struggling with his path to stardom. (Hartnett is going to be 30 next year – is he really believable as a 20-year-old college student?) Rockwell will play the university’s publicist looking to make a name for Hartnett’s quarterback. Dennings will play the temptress who falls for the guy and distracts him with her hot body. George Ratliff (JOSHUA) will direct the film from a script by David Gilbert. The film will be independently financed and later shopped to a studio. DeLillo wrote the novel in 1972 and later in his career won a National Book Award for “White Noise” (and no, not the bad Michael Keaton thriller). Hartnett is currently filming the thriller I COME WITH THE RAIN. Filming on END ZONE is scheduled to begin next February.
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